Where does “Channel” come from?
Channel (English) comes from English chainwale, from English chain, from English blockchain, from English block, from French Bloc, from Middle French bloc, from Old French bloc, from Dutch blok — thick plank, beam, pile, prop.
Ancestry of “Channel”, step by step
| Step | Language | Word | Meaning |
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| 1 | English | chainwale | Obsolete spelling of channel |
| 2 | English | chain | A series of interconnected rings or links usually... |
| 3 | English | blockchain | A shared record of past transactions in a... |
| 4 | English | block | A substantial, often approximately cuboid, piece... |
| 5 | French | Bloc | — |
| 6 | Middle French | bloc | a considerable piece of something heavy, block |
| 7 | Old French | bloc | log, block |
| 8 | Dutch | blok | a block; a street block; a political bloc |
| 9 | Middle Dutch | blok | treetrunk |
| 10 | Old Dutch | blok | log |
| 11 | Proto-West Germanic | blokk | — |
| 12 | Proto-Germanic | blukką | block, log |
| 13 | Proto-Indo-European | bhulg'- | — |
| 14 | Proto-Indo-European | bhelg'- | thick plank, beam, pile, prop |